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Artist Yi Young Uk: A World of Uncanny Sensations Through Repetitive Imagery
Yi Young Uk (b. 1991) explores how the form of repetition functions effectively in contemporary contexts. For instance, he experiments with various organic expressions that break away from rigid formal frameworks—such as creating patterns through the repetition of realistically rendered images, deconstructing forms, or translating them from two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures.
2025.07.14
Exhibitions
《Facade in Facade》, 2021.07.22 – 2021.08.14, OCI Museum of Art
OCI Museum of Art (Director: Ji-hyun Lee) presents the solo exhibition 《Facade in Facade》 by emerging artist Hwang Wonhae, on view from July 21 to August 14, 2021, in the museum’s first-floor gallery. The exhibition is part of the 2021 OCI YOUNG CREATIVES program, an annual initiative supporting six selected young Korean artists through a series of consecutive solo exhibitions.
2021.07.20
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[Critique] If We Can Write New Poetry…
If you believe that there are certain truths you know, they are very likely to be closer to false. People who have experienced events believe they saw everything that happened in front of them, and that they are even privy to the truths behind them.
2024
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[Essay] A Familiar Yet Strange Scene Unfolds in Kim Taedong's Photographs
The images in Kim Taedong’s photographs might appear familiar at first sight. Kim’s works depict stars floating in the night sky, suburban landscapes unfolding in the frame, and people encountered on the street. Nonetheless, the artworks have a somewhat eerie atmosphere that induces anxiety and tension.
2022.07.25
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[Critique] Minouk Lim’s “Media” Art
In The Legend of Angels, French philosopher Michel Serres evokes the world as a vast array of flows:
“Winds generate flows of air in the atmosphere; rivers draw flows of water across land; glaciers carve hollows through mountains
2015
